Open Space

Open space may refer to:

In urban planning and conservation ethics
  • Landscape, areas of land without human-built structures
  • Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
  • Urban open space, urban areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
  • Greenway (landscape), a linear chain of open space reserves or a recreational corridor through the same
  • Public space, areas left open for the use of the public, such as a piazza, plaza, park, and courtyard
In business terminology
  • A procedure for conducting a business conference:
    • Open Space Technology
    • Open-space meeting
Other uses
  • Open Space (band), an indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus
  • Open Space (BBC TV) BBC TV programme produced by their Community Programme Unit
  • Open Space Theatre, a defunct London theatre run by Charles Marowitz
  • Open Space (publications), a music publishing collective

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or space:

    “The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)